Reply #8: Why can't our leaders do the same on foreign policy?

[JackNewtown]

Look at the current ME crisis. Only Hagel and Leahy have challenged Bush/Rice/Olmert/Netanyahu/PNAC. Where are the other 43 Democratic Senators? They aren't silent because they all agree with Bush/Olmert/Netanyahu/PNAC...

Hagel is a conservative and I would never vote for him but he deserves credit for being one of the few in the Senate with a spine on foreign policy. It is much easier to criticize the government on domestic issues than foreign affairs issue, due to the common charge of anti-Americanism/lack of patriotism and in the case of Israel, the charge of anti-Semitism. It takes more spin to speak out on foreign policy IMO than, say, Ted Steven's bridge to nowhere.